Powerful media ignore issues important to most

The Greenville News has recently carried several articles chastising Paula Deen for admitting that 30 years ago she used a word our mainstream media now considers politically incorrect. This public reprimand carried by most newspapers across the nation resulted in significant financial loss for Miss Deen.

In stark contrast, several months ago a professor at Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., required his students to write Jesus' name on a piece of paper, place it on the floor, and stomp on it. The one student who refused reported the incident to the school and was expelled. The professor was initially placed on leave of absence with pay, but later reinstated. This incident, not considered newsworthy by the media, was carried by only a handful of our nation's newspapers.

There are two important conclusions to be drawn from these events:

1) That to mainline journalists, using a word 30 years ago they now consider unacceptable is a major offense and must be immediately and severely punished. While demanding college students to publicly and sacrilegiously profane the name of the Lord Jesus Christ is of no importance.

2) That the power of the American press is enormous, and its destructive influence on our nation should absolutely terrify all honest, hard-working, God-fearing, law-abiding, freedom-loving, principle-minded citizens right down into the marrow of their smallest bone.

Bill Rawls

Greenville

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Powerful media ignore issues important to most

The Greenville News has recently carried several articles chastising Paula Deen for admitting that 30 years ago she used a word our mainstream media now considers politically incorrect.